Rose, 25 years later, still seeks '2nd chance'

Summary of 5 articles · Updated Jun 17, 2014

"I've waited 25 years, but I've done so because I was the one who screwed up," Rose told ESPN.com. Johnson of The Chicago Tribune, Rose would be ready to play if the season started tomorrow: Rose spends 20 days a month, for four and a half hours a day, si… (more)tting inside a Las Vegas store called the Art of Music on the strip signing autographs. But now in 2014, a quarter century since he was justly hurled out of baseball for his obstreperous betting, he was far from all of that in time and place, hired to manage the independent league Bluefish in a ballpark hard by a noisy train line in Bridgeport, Conn., a one-day publicity gimmick.

If the season started tomorrow, Derrick Rose could play for the Chicago Bulls. So ...

Derrick Rose is 100 percent healthy and ready to go! “Sweet,” Chicago Bulls fans say in response. “The season ended two damn days ago.” It’s cold comfort, some 26 months after seeing Rose in at his best in a Bulls uniform (2013-14 limited run was not hi…